Citizens to contribute to constitution via e-mail and SMS
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Sep 02, 2011 - 12:00 am GMT+3
by Sep 02, 2011 12:00 am
Turkey is soon to mark a historical first in the democratic world. If the AK Party’s request is granted, the Turkish public will be able to contribute to the drafting of the constitution through e-mails and SMS text messaging.
The AK Party or Justice and Development Party is taking action to ensure the public has the opportunity to contribute to the drafting of a new constitution. During the constitution-drafting process, the TBMM Conciliation Commission will be taking millions of individual suggestions made by the nation's citizens into close consideration. From here on out, the Turkish public will not only play a role in referendums but will also have a presence in the constitution-drafting process. "We are expecting 3-4 million suggestions" Emphasizing the importance of feedback from nongovernmental organizations as well as from each party, Constitutional Commission Chairman Ömer Çelik states, "We are expecting to receive at least three to four million responses from the public. The new constitution will become the birth certificate for a great Turkey.
"The public is free to be free" "Even in South Africa, there were three million suggestions made by the public during the drafting of the new constitution. They were then broken down in to 10,000 comments which were taken into consideration. Mandela had said, 'The public is free to be free.' I believe that this should be the spirit of the constitution." If the AK Party's request for citizens to provide feedback through e-mails and SMS messaging is granted, 74 million citizens will have the opportunity to contribute to the creation of the nation's new constitution.
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